(Reuters Life!)- Pope
Benedict will be confronted by posters on London's
famous red buses during his trip to the British
capital next month which will call for the
ordination of women priests.

Protests are planned throughout his four-day trip to
England and Scotland, the first papal visit since
John Paul II's pastoral visit in 1982 and the
first-ever official papal visit to Britain.

One group of women, Catholic Women's Ordination
(CWO), will have its message plastered on the side of
the buses as they travel along key routes, including
past Westminster Hall, at the Palace of Westminster,
where the pope is set to deliver a speech to
Britain's civic society on September 17.

The group has paid 15,000 pounds ($23,130) for 15
buses to carry the message "Pope Benedict - Ordain
Women Now!" for a month.

"We do not want to be disruptive, but I think the
church has got to change or it will not survive," CWO
spokeswoman Pat Brown told Reuters.READ MORE

Here is a
fascinating interview with a Lutheran Pastor who
became a traditional Catholic priest. I find it
fascinating in many ways--most especially how this
man was treated by the so-called Catholic bishops in
his own diocese when he informed them of his desire
to convert.

It
is well for you to consider what you lose every
time that you pass up Holy Communion.
1. You miss a personal visit with Jesus, Author of
all spiritual energy and of all holiness;

2. You lose a special increase of sanctifying grace,
which makes your soul more pleasing to God;

3. You lose a quota of sacramental grace which
entitles you to special help in times of temptation
and in the discharge of your daily duties;

4. You lose a precious opportunity of having all of
your venial sins wiped away;

5. You miss the special preserving influence which
each Holy Communion confers against the fires of
passion;

6. You miss the opportunity of having remitted a
part, or all, of the temporal punishments due to your
sins;

7. You lose the spiritual joy, the sweetness and
particular comfort that come from a fervent Holy
Communion;

8. You lose a part of the glory that your body might
enjoy at its resurrection on the Last Day;

9. You lose the greater degree of glory you would
possess in Heaven for all eternity;

10. You may lose:
a) complete victory over some fault or
passion;
b) some particular grace long prayed
for;
c) the conversion or salvation of some
soul;
d) deliverance of a relative or friend
from Purgatory;
e) many graces for others, both the
living and the dead.

Will a few extra minutes
of sleep repay you for all these
losses?

What riches hundreds of thousands of Catholics
deprive themselves daily by neglecting Mass. It
in itself is the best preparation for Holy
Communion. At the hour of death our greatest
consolation will be the Masses we have heard and the
Holy Communions received.

"...if we look through Europe we shall find on the whole
that just those nations and countries have lost their faith
in the divinity of Christ, who have given up devotion to
His Mother..."
Card. Newman
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"Idolatry
is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also
by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or
alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of
spiritual corruption and cowardice."

G.K. Chesterton

________________

"No
one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true
socialist."
Pope Pius XI

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WHAT IS AGAINST TRUTH CANNOT BE JUST.
St Augustine

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"Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God,
that is the god of his idolatry"
Archb. Ullathorne

__________

"Individual liberty, freed from all bonds and all laws, all
objective and social values, is in reality only a
death-dealing anarchy."
Pope Pius XIII

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"To understand how indispensable the Eucharist is to the
practice of Christian chastity is to understand the meaning
of Christianity. When Christ told us, "Without me, you can
do nothing," He meant this to be taken literally. Without
the constant help of His grace to enlighten our darkened
minds and strengthen our weak wills, all the moral precepts
of the New Testament are so much pious rhetoric or
religious jargon."
Fr John Hardon
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"Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends
itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so
avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to
facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes
lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he
ignores truth."
Malcolm Muggeridge

___________

"Now, tell me whether, when you enter church to hear Mass,
you thoroughly well consider that you are going up as it
were to Calvary, to be present at the death of the
Redeemer... Wickedness is hideous at any time, and in any
place; but sins committed during the time of Mass, and
before the altar, draw down after them the curse of God."
St. Leonard-Port Maurice

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"Paganism is as old as human history. In one sentence,
paganism is a culture of untruth."

Fr John Hardon S.J.

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"That the State must be separated from the Church is a
thesis absolutely false, a most pernicious error."